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Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal recently cause a commotion when he let some info loose about the possibility of a 3G Apple iPhone in June. And as he was doing this in a public press conference, it’s easy to see why everybody in the Web took his word so seriously (and didn’t even consider this to be a late April fools joke). We’ve read his statement in quotes, and we’ve even watched a video of him saying it. But a recent report from Silicon Alley Insider says that Mossberg has disowned having said that there will be a 3G iPhone in June, and even went as far as to say that he doesn’t really care if and when a 3G iPhone comes. Oops?

Walt said that he was only making a side comment about the iPhone while talking about an entirely different topic altogether, and has no way to make sure whether his statement was correct or not. He’d go on to later say that his statement was just a ballpark estimate, based on pretty much the same data that everybody else has been using. This might not be enough to convince most people, but the real kicker is this: “If I knew when this date was, why would I announce it in the middle of a sentence at the Finnish embassy, rather than report it in the Wall Street Journal?” And that, my friends, would be the ultimate disclaimer. Guess we’ll all just have to wait and see in June then.

Read [Alley Insider]